Example sentences of "he was [verb] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Klaus denied accusations by opposition parties that he was copying Poland 's " shock therapy " , and that he was deliberately using inflation to soak up excess purchasing power . |
| 2 | Harry Cairns first met Paisley in 1958 when he was promoting Albert Duff as a Protestant Unionist candidate against Maginnis , the then Attorney-General , in the rural Iveagh constituency . |
| 3 | But Guido was there all right ; he must have come back without Ronni knowing , and he was facing Silvia in the enormous hallway , a fulminating tower of bristling black anger . |
| 4 | In the back of his mind he was cheering Maura on . |
| 5 | Though it is rare to find consensus among footballers and the media , few on either side had a good , or even printable , word for Toshack in Wales while he was marching Swansea to the top of the hill and down again . |
| 6 | We sat down then and all the time he was eating Frankie could n't keep his eyes off her or the things that surrounded him . |
| 7 | ft informed us that he was leaving Salamanca for England on his motor bike , via Cherbourg , and that we could expect him in Bath on a certain day . |
| 8 | Chalmers has been at the centre of speculation this week , one report suggesting he was leaving Melrose to join Newcastle Gosforth . |
| 9 | But ships are too valuable to lie idle for very long , and Robert barely had a month in which to re-acquaint himself with his new wife and pat his young infants on the head before he was leaving John Street and Stepney again — through Limehouse into Poplar and aboard the Orynthia in West India Dock . |
| 10 | He held a pair of red hot tongs in his hands with which he was tweaking Uncle Philip 's testicles . |
| 11 | The first Leopold heard of it was when his son coolly informed him that he was accompanying Aloysia and her father for a few days to visit the Princess of Orange at Kircheim-Bolanden , where Aloysia was to sing several arias that Wolfgang had written for her . |
| 12 | Bakatin also announced , in a sign of the changes , that he was overruling KGB objections and would allow Oleg Gordievsky 's wife and children to join him in London , where he had defected in 1985 [ see pp. 34004-05 ] . |
| 13 | When he was killed Vincent Massey , the High Commissioner for Canada , and Mr Justice Lawrence , the High Court Judge for whom Dermot had marshalled , wrote appreciations of him in The Times , a remarkable tribute in this time of war to an unknown young man . |
| 14 | He was watching Quigley , a sour look on his chapped little face . |
| 15 | Yet he was watching Meh'Lindi . |
| 16 | As he was watching Bathsheba selling wheat to another farmer , he was filled with jealousy . |
| 17 | He was watching Alexei , his head cocked to one side like a bird examining a dubious worm . |
| 18 | He was watching John Russell all the while and seemed to be picking his words carefully . |
| 19 | He was watching Jack and Floss go down the ride towards the feeding-ground . |
| 20 | He appeared to be airborne , but he was watching Stephen out of the corner of his eye . |
| 21 | He was watching Stella who stood at the fireplace , leaning against the armchair in which Potter now sat holding court . |
| 22 | He was watching Charles closely , as if afraid that he would not be believed , when he came to describe the meeting with Maureen O'Duffy and what she had told them during the drive down the mountain . |
| 23 | He first heard the news on Tuesday evening as he was feeding Sophie . |
| 24 | He was calling Peter 's bluff — but she was the pawn . |
| 25 | Well , he was stating God remembered Noah , the beasts and the cattle . |
| 26 | He was eyeing Cameron sideways . |
| 27 | Two minutes later , in damp pyjamas , he was swinging Margaret round and round the little hall . |
| 28 | Surprisingly , he was hearing Dr Moule quite loud and clear , for she had a firm and resonant voice . |
| 29 | That he was sorting George out at last . |
| 30 | He was seeing Comrade Andrew , as Alice knew , for she , too , visited Comrade Andrew who seemed to want to talk about Bert , making no secret of his plan for him , which was that he should follow the path of job , flat , security and respectability . |